and remember, that came right after obama made the famous statement if you have a business and you've had success, you didn't build that, somebody else made it happen. i mean, that's a crystallization of the great argument between left and right. and i try to point out in the column obama said what was almost a platitude, you know? you don't operate alone, there are other people around. there's roads and bridges. the mistake that liberalism makes -- and here's the core, and it came out exactly in his explanation of this -- is that he identified society, what's outside of the individual, as government rather than recognizing that what really shapes the individual is what we call civil society. the independent, autonomous elements of society outside of government that have the post influence in shaping you -- the most influence in shaping you. that is the family, that's the church, that's the community, that's the pta. that's all the things that were talked about as the glory of america, the little platoons that others have talked about. and that is the essence and the glory and the pro